Her tweet set off a firestorm of criticism from GOP lawmakers and others over her use of "concentration camps," with some saying she was unfairly comparing the southern border to the Holocaust. The Border Patrol's union, while condemning the Facebook posts, also took a swipe at her. "Whet...
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“Had Border Patrol vetted him, it would have learned he’d been arrested in El Salvador for ‘illicit association’ with MS-13,” McCaughey wrote. She contrasted Biden’s weakness with the border policies of his predecessor, Donald Trump, and cited a...
Texas with the media in tow. He plans to host a meet-and-greet with the Border Patrol's union leadership before traveling to the border and speaking with reporters. Trump will then head to a reception hall to meet with local law enforcement officials who “will be ...
He charged in one tweet: “The Border Committee Democrats are behaving, all of a sudden, irrationally. Not only are they unwilling to give dollars for the obviously needed Wall (they overrode recommendations of Border Patrol experts), but they don’t even want to take muderers into custody!
Lee Gelernt, a spokesperson for the American Civil Liberties Union, said in an email Friday that there were 611 children in custody whose parents have not been located since former President Donald Trump rescinded the zero-tolerance policy in June 2018. ...
So far, only repairs and replacements of barriers along the border have taken place. In mid-March, Customs and Border Patrol told CNN that “approximately 38 of 40 miles of wall in place of outdated designs in San Diego and El Centro, California, Santa Teresa, New Mexico and El Paso, Te...
“In the last facility, I was not safe from the officers,” she told CNN’s Natasha Chen on her way into the Clint facility. Ocasio-Cortez grew frustrated during the tours. She screamed at Border Patrol agents for trying to take selfies with her before she toured one facility, according...